Faucet



May 8, 1934- R. HENNINGFIEL 1,958,002

FAUCET Filed June 6, 1933 @afp/b Hem/@inf fi www Patented May 8, 1934 UNETED STATES PATENT GFFICE 1 Claim.

The invention relates to faucets, and has for its object to provide a device of this character particularly adapted for use in connection with drum heads, for instance oil drums, and has for its object to provide a right angularly shaped faucet casing having a spring pressed valve adjacent the angular portion thereof and an aperturev in said angular portion of the casing, through which a right angularly shaped arm of a lever may be inserted into engagement with the valve and in a position whereby, upon a downward movement of the handle of the angularly shaped member, the valve will be unseated for discharge purposes.

A further object is to provide the control lever with stops on opposite sides thereof forming bearings on which the lever rocks during a valve unseating operation.

A further object is to provide means whereby the control lever may be removed from the valve casing, thereby preventing unauthorized persons from opening the valve. The device is particularly advantageous as a safe guard against children, around gas vending stations.

A further object is to make one arm of the casing removable, and to provide a spring seated valve therein guided by a disc carried thereby and having right angularly shaped arms slidably mounted in the chamber of the removable portion and tointerpose the coiled spring between said arms and a shoulder formed by the chamber for guiding the valve in its movement to open or closed positions.

With the above and other objects in view, the

invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawing, described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the faucet.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse sectional View Y taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the discharge portion of the faucet casing, showing the lever receiving aperture in the upper side j thereof.

Figure 4 is a perspective View of the lever.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates one arm of the faucet casing, which is at substantially a right angle to the discharge arm 2 thereof. The arm 1 is provided with a screw threaded portion 3, so that the device can be screwed into a container opening and is threaded at 4 to the short arm 5 of the discharge portion 2 so that the valve hereinafter set forth can be assembled in the faucet casing and in the chamber 6 of the casing arm 1. Casing arm 1 is provided With a hexagonal portion 7 for the reception of a wrench and applying the faucet to a receptacle.

The spring pressed valve within the chamber 6 comprises a disc or plate 8, opposite sides of which terminate in right angularly shaped arms 9, which are slidably mounted in the chamber 6 and guide the valve in a seating and unseating operation against the valve seat 10 formed by the arm 5 of the casing section 2, as clearly shown in Figure 1. Secured to the outer side of the disc 8, by means of a headed screw l1 is a washer 12 which may be a bre washer or any other kind of washer desired. The head bolt 1l has threaded thereon, rearwardly of the disc 8, a nut 13, which may be a lock nut if desired, and surrounding said nut and interposed between the angularly shaped arms 9 of the disc 8 and the shoulder 14 of the chamber 6 is a coiled spring l5, the expansive action of which normally maintains the faucet valve in closed position as clearly shown in Figure 1. Arms 9 guide the valve axially during the opening and closing operation. It will be seen that the head 16 of the headed screw 11 will axially move, and when the valve is in closed position will be adjacent the angular portion of the faucet casing, where it is easily reached by the end 17 of the operating lever 18.

The handle member 18 is provided with an angularly shaped arm 19 which terminates in the arm 17, extending in the same general plane as the handle member 18, and together form a right angularly shaped member to be inserted through the opening 20 in the upper side of the faucet casing adjacent its angling point as clearly shown in Figure 1. The outer end of the arm 17 engages the head 11, and when the handle member 18 is rocked on the lugs 21 which engage the upper side of the faucet casing in the direction of the arrow a, the valve will be unseated for a discharge operation. After the discharge operation, the operator removes the handle member from the faucet and carries the same with him therefore it will be seen that unauthorized persons can not open the faucet without the handle member, nor is there danger of the faucet being opened accidentally, which is the common difficulty with faucets as at present constructed, 110

in the intake arm and cooperating with a seat, said valve comprising a plate and washer carried by said plate, right angularly shaped spaced apart guide arms carried by said plate at its sides and guidable in the chamber of the arm, a shoulder in said arm, an expansion spring interposed between said shoulder and the guide arms and a removable lever extending through the casing and cooperating With the discharge side of the valve axially thereof and forming means whereby said valve may be unseated.

RALPH HENNINGFIELD. 

